Essentially Rumsfeld wins, Cheney wins, and the CIA and State Department lose. Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld have more centralized control over intelligence, analysis, and operations than ever before. And the way they interpret the law, if the President authorizes an… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
If Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it for ideological… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
At a meeting in her office in the late summer of 2002, months before the war in Iraq, prisoner abuse at Guantanamo is discussed.… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
Using words to make other people less big made me feel bigger, though the psychological dimension to that... well, I don't want to explore… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
We'd be better off if the whole purpose of the adventure in Iraq was, say, to protect Israel or to protect the flow of… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
The idea of photographing an Arab man naked and having him simulate homosexual activity, and having an American GI woman in the photographs, is… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of talk about how bad the reporting was, particularly with the George W. Bush Administration after 9/11. The general assumption,… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
If George W. Bush had gone into Iraq for cynical reasons, we could cut our losses now. What's frightening is that he did it… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever met a public official that didn't think he was doing the right thing. I can't think of one. — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
How can you have a security guarantee? The Europeans can give their security guarantees to Iran all they want in return for their stopping… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
